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Jun 2019
18m 58s

Tuberculosis

THOMAS WATCHMAN
About this episode

In this episode I cover tuberculosis.

If you want to follow along with written notes on tuberculosis go to https://zerotofinals.com/medicine/infectiousdisease/tb/ or the infectious diseases section in the Zero to Finals medicine book.

This episode covers the presentation, testing, management and vaccination of tuberculosis. 

The audio in the episode was expertly edited by Harry Watchman.

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